Anyone using the Cronometer online macro calculator?

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(Terence Dean) #21

Yep agree entirely with what you’re saying here, that’s probably one cause for why people get so heated about this eating of fat to satiety. It does depend on what you are using Keto for. My primary objective is to lose weight, I know in the process of achieving that my health will improve and who knows what else at a cellular level there might be benefits to my body as well. I’m for all that but time and I again I see people who are on stalls and they’re not new to Keto, they are in real stalls for months, one case for a year. That would just not suit me at all.

I lost a week of my own time this week because I haven’t adjusted my eating plan since I began. I was actually beginning to gain weight, it moved up 2 kgs. So that led me here to the Cronometer where I discovered what looks like an answer to my particular WOE. I’ve dropped back my protein a bit closer to the macros, and reduced my fat intake to 100% from 203% and in two days I’m getting the movement in the right direction. Tomorrow I’m expecting to be back to where I was at the start of the week.

(Ron) #22

And as the weight reduces the progression also reduces so for me it is a way to monitor this closer.

(Terence Dean) #23

Well it worked, I’m below my last recorded marker by 0.4lbs. It looks like keeping a check on your macros and adjusting as you lose weight is the way forward, n=1. :keto:

A very useful tool to add to my WOE. I like the way it calculates a deficit for you too.

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(Ron) #24

Nice. I have been using it since starting Keto and it has been a big help. I have the habit of creating a daily meal plan the evening before and then eating to that plan.:open_mouth:
That page could have been one of mine, almost identical.:rofl:

(Terence Dean) #25

I like that idea too. Takes the guess work out of deciding what to eat for the entire day.

(Sarah Sim) #26

Hi Everyone,

I did use the TotalKeto app, but thought I would try Cronometer. I have got stuck on my first custom food. I make a frittata that I eat for breakfast in the morning. So I have entered all the ingredients for the recipe. I will probably divide it into five portions. The question is how do I make Cronometer know this is five servings? Thank you in advance.

(Sarah Sim) #27

SOLVED: I got up this morning and it came to me, just put in ‘1/5’ and Cronometer sorted it as 0.2.

(Terence Dean) #28

You could also weigh a portion and enter that, cronometer should automatically calculate the macros for you, calories. When I’m creating a recipe I weigh everything in grams and just enter them into the recipe.

(Sarah Sim) #29

I like the idea of preparing my frittata on the weekend to eat for breakfast. I am really in no fit state in the morning to sort calculations.

So I make the frittata and put it in Cronometer as a recipe (all ingredients weighed) with date. Then change the serving size to 5 (I have learned that since my original post) Then in the morning I just add a serving, job done. I still have to do extra, because of the avocado, chia seeds and sometimes cheese, but I enter these whilst I am eating.

I don’t fret about if I have sliced it exactly into five pieces, I just eyeball it, because at the end of the week I will have eaten it all.

I am not convinced about being too precise, because the composition of food changes. I believe apps make it seem really precise, but I think you can only be really precise by taking a piece and testing it. Is that burning to measure calories?

(Terence Dean) #30

Yeah no app is 100% accurate but at least it gives you some idea, better than guessing IMO.